Trade & FA 2024-25:

[DallasMaverick]

So, if you’re a GM with a player who’s at the end of their cheap deal, but is now looking for their big (maybe max) payday, but you have a different opinion of the player’s value, what do you do?

Guys like Markkanen or Kuminga or Franz Wagner or Quickley. Good, solid young players, but if you give them max contracts it’s hard to build a championship team. But they are real assets, and it’s painful to let them walk for nothing.

Trade them to a team that IS willing to pay them an overpriced deal, maybe in a S&T for a more appropriately priced player plus draft capital?

Just bite the bullet and overpay, hoping they turn into a superstar?

It seems like a lot of teams are currently having to just keep players with bad contracts, whereas in years past they could pawn them off more easily.